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DWP boss McFadden making vague pronouncements about ‘helping people into work’ again

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DWP boss McFadden making vague pronouncements about ‘helping people into work’ again

Pat McFadden, the leader of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is already working to set the media agenda ahead of the full publication of two flagship reports in the autumn. Inevitably, he’s bleating about ‘supporting’ people with health conditions to get into work. In a 15 July interview with the Guardian, McFadden stated that his department had already begun its work in advance of the final reports: Even before they’ve reported, I’m already speaking to the Department for Education [and] the Department for Health. We’re going to have to respond to this as a government. It’s my job to…

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More Blair-Starmer continuity — Burnham & Milburn team up against young people

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More Blair-Starmer continuity — Burnham & Milburn team up against young people

Presumptive new PM Andy Burnham has given yet another signal of his intention to continue where Keir Starmer and his Blair tribute act leave off. Burnham is now working “hand-in-glove” with Starmer adviser and Blairite privatiser Alan Milburn on forcing people into work. Milburn blames young people The plan is, of course, dressed up as “opportunity and life chances” for young people. However, Milburn’s May 2026 interim report for Starmer makes clear that the aim is to force them into work for economic growth rather than their benefit. 60% of those targeted are not currently looking for work — and Milburn,…

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Study finds DWP benefits already harder to get for people with ADHD

Study finds DWP benefits already harder to get for people with ADHD

Despite what the corporate media and MP’s are always spreading, a new study has shown that it’s actually harder to get disability benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) if you have ADHD. For months now the rags have pushed the narrative that too many people with ADHD are cheating the system and claiming Personal Independence Payments (PIP). The latest was from The Times: More than 100,000 get benefits for ADHD with no need to seek work As the Canary reported at the time, this was days before the DWP released the Timms Review into PIP. This was a…

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Responses from disabled people detail “soul-destroying” DWP PIP assessments

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Responses from disabled people detail “soul-destroying” DWP PIP assessments

The 9 July interim report from the Timms Review of the Department for Work and Pension’s (DWP) Personal Independence Payment (PIP) system found that the benefit was both vitally necessary and deeply unfit for purpose. After putting out a call for responses back in March, the reviewers received over 38,000 responses. This was in spite of the fact that the response period was limited to 10 weeks, rather than the customary 12. Within these, the vast majority — around 90%  — of the responses were negative. Roughly half mentioned PIP’s financial inadequacy, and over a quarter referenced decisions or appeals that…

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People Against Genocide target Tring factory of key Elbit supplier Ultra I&C

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People Against Genocide target Tring factory of key Elbit supplier Ultra I&C

Early on 9 July, 3 action-takers from People Against Genocide successfully evaded security to enter the Tring facility of military tech and cyber warfare company Ultra Intelligence & Communications (Ultra I&C) in Tring, Hertfordshire. Once inside the building, the PAG team began dismantling military equipment, to close the facility down, and stop production. Ultra I&C is a key supplier to UAV Tactical Systems, the Leicester subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel’s biggest weapons maker. Elbit produces 85% of the Israeli military’s killer drone fleet, and 80% of their other weaponry and equipment. Elbit boasts that its deadly products are “battle-tested” on Palestinians.…

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People power works: evil Thiel’s Ireland retreat cancelled after campaign

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People power works: evil Thiel’s Ireland retreat cancelled after campaign

In a sign of how hollow power can be once confronted, a Wicklow hotel has cancelled a Peter Thiel led event after a relatively brief campaign from Irish activists. A collection of the world’s most despicable ruling class parasites were set to infest the Powerscourt Hotel as part of a conference run by a secretive group called Dialog. Co-founded by tyranny advocate and genocide backer Thiel in 2006, Dialog were set to use the meeting just south of Dublin to discuss topics entitled Navigating WWIII, Battlefield Technologies and Build-a-Cult. That list of talks gets even more sinister when you know Dialog’s…

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Marginalised people twice as likely to live in neighbourhoods most exposed to environmental harm

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Marginalised people twice as likely to live in neighbourhoods most exposed to environmental harm

New analysis published today by the environmental justice organisation, Friends of the Earth, reveals stark inequalities in exposure to pollution, access to nature and other climate impacts that are affecting communities across England. The data shows not only how millions of people are living with overlapping environmental threats on their doorstep, but how certain people are at higher risk of suffering these hazards. According to the analysis, people of colour are more than twice as likely to live in the areas most affected by environmental harm, making up 60% of the population living in the 10% of neighbourhoods most at risk.…

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Starmer was even more dangerous for disabled people than the Tories

Starmer was even more dangerous for disabled people than the Tories

Well, that’s it, Starmer has finally shuffled off. From behind his sad beige podium, the sad beige prime minister announced he would be resigning. Speaking outside Downing Street, Starmer boasted about ending austerity and working to improve Britain for all. However, for disabled people, Starmer’s short reign was even more dangerous than the Tories. When Labour got in, it was a small glimmer of hope; surely they couldn’t be as cruel as the Tories? But Starmer heard that and went ‘hold my beer’. Starmer’s Labour far crueller than the Tories From the outset, Starmer’s government has been focused on change for…

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Scottish courts further denigrate rights for trans people with prison ruling

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Scottish courts further denigrate rights for trans people with prison ruling

Scotland’s highest civil court has ruled that guidance allowing some trans women to be housed in women’s prisons was unlawful. This is undoubtedly another setback in an increasingly hostile environment for trans people across the UK. It is incredible how fast the legal arguments fall in line once political appetite changes. And now that fascism is creeping across the UK, clearly the most vulnerable communities are facing the sharpest end of oppression. Human rights for some The Court of Session ruled that Scottish prison guidance was unlawful because it allowed some trans women to be accommodated in the women’s estate following…

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Israel kills at least 47 people in Lebanon: today’s news alert

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Israel kills at least 47 people in Lebanon: today’s news alert

Renowned journalist Guy Smallman is on the ground in Southern Lebanon for the Canary. Here is his first daily report. To understand the flare-up today, Friday 19 June, between the IDF and Hezbollah’s resistance fighters, it is first necessary to take a look at the location in Lebanon. Lebanon: Friday, 19 June The Ali al-Taher ridge in Lebanon is home to a complex system of tunnels which form the backbone of local infrastructure for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan brigade. Constructed largely in secrecy, the complex was officially declared in a video by the group’s military media unit in 2024. Described as an…

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Indigenous people in Kenya reject attempts to re-start troubled carbon credit project

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Indigenous people in Kenya reject attempts to re-start troubled carbon credit project

A carbon credit project which Meta and Netflix have used stands accused of coercion of Indigenous people. Indigenous people in Northern Kenya have accused the controversial conservation organisation Northern Rangelands Trust of “tricks and dishonest dealings”. And they’ve denounced its attempt to revive its notorious and twice-suspended Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project. Northern Rangelands Trust is pushing Indigenous communities in the project area to sign agreements that it presents as a solution to the project’s crisis but could in fact further reduce community control over their ability to graze their livestock, and to manage their own lands. Maasai and Rendille people…

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UN says drones killed over 1000 people in Sudan civil war in 2026

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UN says drones killed over 1000 people in Sudan civil war in 2026

The United Nations (UN) has said that over 1000 people have been killed by drones in Sudan in 2026. Both the Sudanese state military and the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces militia use drones. The three-year old war has displaced millions and killed thousands. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said: We are seeing a global shift in how war is waged. The UN has warned for many years against the development of lethal autonomous weapons. This reality is now upon us. Adding that: Relentless drone attacks have caused mass casualties and terrorized civilians. Turk was speaking at a UN event in…

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Rihanna Kelver facing felony charges shows ‘stand your ground’ is not for trans people

Rihanna Kelver facing felony charges shows ‘stand your ground’ is not for trans people

Rihanna Kelver, a transgender woman in Wyoming, is facing felony charges for pulling a weapon to defend herself after being subject to homophobic and transphobic slurs. Slate magazine reported that Kelver was about to end a work shift when several men on the street began yelling slurs at her. Then: Moments later, according to court testimony and surveillance footage, the man shoved Kelver to the ground hard enough to injure her tailbone. Kelver responded by drawing a pistol from her bag, chambering a round, and pointing the weapon at the man who had pushed her. She kept the safety on and…

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Unions respond: “Reform are no friends of working people”

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Unions respond: “Reform are no friends of working people”

Reform — The trade unions have hit back against Farage’s recent pitiful appeal to try to bring the UK labour movement over to the far-right. Quite unsurprisingly, they’ve seen through his ridiculous claim that: Reform is now the party of workers. Farage also invited unions to apply for affiliation, and welcomed union leadership to attend the party conference. However, those same leaders have now told him where to shove it in reply. ‘Let’s be crystal clear’ On 8 June, the Times published an interview with Nigel Farage, trying to lure trade unions into affiliation with Reform UK. The fascist rag highlighted…

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Nearly five million more people experiencing poor mental health since 2009

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Nearly five million more people experiencing poor mental health since 2009

The Mental Health Foundation has released The Foundation Reports: The state of mental health inequality in the UK, based on data following 40,000 individuals over 15 years. The report found higher levels of poor mental health than recently reported in other datasets. One in four adults in the UK (25%) now experiences mental distress. That’s 14 million people. This has risen from 17% since the period immediately following the 2008 financial crisis. And that means an additional 4.8 million people now experience poor mental health just 16 years later. The evaluation of the Understanding Society dataset involved examining data gathered from…

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DWP’s new AI jobcentre built a CV for a parrot, what will it force disabled people into?

DWP’s new AI jobcentre built a CV for a parrot, what will it force disabled people into?

Keir Starmer has launched the latest crap policy that he thinks will save his failing premiership: an AI jobcentre advisor – because that’s exactly what the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) need. DWP and AI needs to walk the plank The Prime Minister announced at London Tech Week that the DWP had developed the new ‘AI work assistant’. Starmer called the tool a ‘jobcentre in your pocket’ and said it would help unemployed people find work and help build them CVs. Science editor at The Times, Tom Whipple decided to give it a go, with a twist. He wrote on…

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Reform’s Zia Yusuf thinks targeted prostate cancer screenings are racist against white people now

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Reform’s Zia Yusuf thinks targeted prostate cancer screenings are racist against white people now

On 2 June, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a £200m boost to the Transform prostate cancer treatment trial. However, Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf has chosen to get himself in a tizz about the fact that the potentially life-saving trial is targeting Black people. You know, because Black people suffer from a far higher risk of prostate cancer than white people. But the far-right home affairs spokesperson isn’t letting that little fact stop him. Following party leader Nigel Farage’s current talking point, Yusuf branded the trial as evidence of a “two-tier system” creating a systematic disadvantage for white people.…

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Government washes hands of raising minimum wage for young people

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Government washes hands of raising minimum wage for young people

In 2024, Labour pledged to equalise the minimum wage across all age bands. Now, a senior minister has claimed that the act of governing is completely out of the hands of government: Page 45 of Labours 2024 manifesto stated: "Labour will also remove the discriminatory age bands so all adults are entitled to the same minimum wage" Pat McFadden is asked, when are you going to do this? McFadden says its not up to the govt to do it. pic.twitter.com/RSVJaZvf7x — Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) May 31, 2026 Has there ever been a government as comfortable with u-turning as the Starmer regime?…

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DWP urged to guarantee lifetime disability benefits for people with terminal illness

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DWP urged to guarantee lifetime disability benefits for people with terminal illness

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) shouldn’t force people living with terminal illness and progressive, life-limiting conditions to undergo stressful, costly and unnecessary disability benefit reassessments. So says a coalition of more than 30 organisations, led by end-of-life charity Marie Curie, in an open letter to DWP minister Stephen Timms. Sent on 28 May to coincide with the Call for Evidence deadline for the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payments, the open letter describes the reform as a “clear and compassionate” way to protect people living with terminal illness and those with progressive life-limiting conditions. DWP has a chance to…

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‘Top’ French media pundits can’t name three living Chinese people

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‘Top’ French media pundits can’t name three living Chinese people

This is genuinely incredible and says SO SO MUCH about the perception of China in the West. This is the #1 news show in France, and the host – David Pujadas – asks the pundits around the table (a sample of the top media figures in France) if they can name 3 living Chinese… pic.twitter.com/gkkWxTKfni — Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) May 29, 2026 This selection of French media pundits was offered a simple challenge: name three living Chinese people. As you’d expect, a familiar response came: Xi Jinping; then… nothing. Rien. Juste l’embarras. These are not some random fellows interviewed vox-pop on…

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